Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And...
And he was right.
He found it, yeah.
I mean, so it took a while.
It took two years.
He and his colleagues over that time screened 6,000 strains of microbes searching for a compound with cholesterol-lowering properties.
It's like searching for a needle in a haystack, really.
And the first hit on this was less of a needle and more of a crochet hook.
But the second was exactly what they were looking for.
Okay.
The compound came from the mold penicillium citrinum, another penicillium.
And they named it compactin, also known as mevastatin later on.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
And this was the first statin.
Yeah.
So over the next several years, Endo and other researchers at Sankyo tested compactin safety, efficacy and commercial viability.
And other pharmaceutical companies got wind of this, like Merck, who was like, can we get a sample of that and see what's going on?
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